Almost four kilometers are from Vornbuch, a tiny district of the little larger area Attnang-Puchheim, to Regau in Austria, at least if you take the road: on foot you should make it in little more than an hour. But that did not do a drunken 23-year-old, who lost there in the early morning hours of December 25 in a wooded area.
The young man had the sense to be chauffeured home by taxi at the end of a seemingly wet, happy Christmas Eve. However, near the small village, at about 5:50 am, as the police record notes, he had the driver stopped short because his urge to urinate him into the bushes. It was the beginning of a rescue drama with a happy ending - because in the forest the man lost his orientation and could not find his way back to the taxi.
His companion, who contacted the police, realized that this could be potentially unhealthy. The responded to the emergency call by appropriate means - and let the stray Pinkelpausierer with the help of 30 police officers and firefighters, with 14 dogs and a helicopter search.
"At 09:20," the police report said, "the departing person called a relative and said that he could be fetched in the area of Regau." The man stated that he had lost his way in the woods and could no longer find the taxi He was unhurt. "
So the stray man reappeared about three and a half hours after his disappearance in the icy wood. Somehow he had managed to cross the Ager stream on his way.
Pinkel breaks make headlines again and again
Missed Pinkel breaks provide repeatedly material for strange messages - the subject lives in a peculiar joke. Because such things are only newsworthy if they are crass, crisis or funny.
In September 2009, an English tourist rushed peeing out of a window on the sixth floor of a Munich hotel. The police assume that he could not find the toilet and then sat down on the windowsill. His body was found the next morning with his pants down at the foot of the building.
In 2015, Rolf Bantle from Switzerland, who allegedly lost out in 2004 in the Giuseppe Mezza Stadium in Milan after a break in the Champions League qualifier of his club FC Basel, made headlines across Europe.
He had not been able to find his tour group, the man said, after he had been found eleven years later: The then 60-year-old lived for over a decade as a rather satisfied homeless in Milan, rather than on his own to search the way back to Basel. He did not land there until he fell ill - and was taken back to Switzerland because of missing papers.